The Security Labs™ team here at Raytheon|Websense® has just released our analysis on the threat landscape specific to the Healthcare industry. The report takes into account real-world telemetry observed within our ThreatSeeker® Intelligence Cloud. Healthcare is a major target for cybercriminals...

In the spring, Websense® Security Labs identified a rising trend in bold, well-researched, targeted fraud attacks using typosquatting and false headers as their primary gambit. Since then, these fraudulent attacks have continued, logging immense gains in both volume and success: the FBI’s Internet...

Websense® Security Labs™ has observed an increase in Dridex being used to target individuals in the Czech Republic. Using malicious email lure themes related to invoicing, the campaign follows a typical pattern of targeting recipients using keywords like "accounts payable" to make...

Black Hat USA 2015 starts in the next few days and our security researchers will be in attendance and participating. We are also attending Def Con 23 on 6-9 August 2015. Black Hat and Def Con are seen as the pinnacle of security conferences as security vendors, independent researchers, IT managers, and...

Researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens, from the University of Leuven, have shown that they can exploit weaknesses in the RC4 algorithm in order to decrypt web cookies used to store end-user content when communicating with HTTPS-enabled websites. RC4 is one of several algorithms used to encrypt...

Following on from the revelation of a 0-day in Adobe Flash in June 2015 ( CVE-2015-3113 , since patched) 3 further 0-days have been discovered in the last 3 weeks. The 3 have references CVE-2015-5119, CVE-2015-5122, and CVE-2015-5123. The knowledge of the 0-day Proof of Concept code arose from analysis...

Websense® Security Labs™ have, since Monday 6 July, been looking out for details of an anticipated release to the OpenSSL open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. Today (9 July 2015) the OpenSSL Project released an update to the popular toolkit detailed in the Security Advisory available here: https...

The threat landscape today is both dynamic and diverse. On one end of the spectrum are mass infections and threats that, while not very sophisticated, cast a wide net. On the other hand, we have very advanced targeted threats that are crafted painstakingly with a single target in mind, and executed over...

The Security Labs™ team here at Raytheon|Websense® has just released our analysis on the threat landscape specific to the Financial Services industry. By bringing in data from our Websense ThreatSeeker® Intelligence Cloud supplemented with the analysis of our security experts we are able...

Websense® Security Labs™ researchers are aware of a vulnerability within Adobe Flash Player, CVE-2015-3113. Exploitation of the vulnerability leads to a buffer overflow which can be abused by a malware author to execute arbitrary code on the compromised machine. Adobe have deemed this vulnerability...